If you haven’t experienced a significant loss in your life, then you are one of the lucky ones. If you have – be it a spouse, child or close friend – then you probably already know how it can feel like losing your mind. Which, in some ways, you are.
In her extensive grief research, Mary-Frances O’Connor explains that when we experience a profound loss, our brains have to begin a lengthy process of rewiring all of the pathways and predictions they made based on a loved one’s presence, gradually switching over to an understanding of their absence. It can take…
